Wallops Island Launch in 1 Hour

Space flight is a dangerous and difficult undertaking. I miss the Space Shuttle; a truly magnificent machine. I miss the old NASA too.

 

What a bummer

 

How bout a tread on Tom Brady's next flight? HOTY Goes Supernatural!

 

Alas, a downtrodden Dolphin fan. Time to cry myself to sleep.

 

He played poorly on Sunday...
10/26 vs Bears: 30 for 35 (85.7%); 354 yds; 5 TD, 0 INT; 148.4 rating

Back to the regularly scheduled programming. How are they going to get the supplies to the space station now? Has that been stated?

 

RIP Antares. At least he lived his short life by the sea... and... eventually blew up there...

 

Dudes that stinks... Last night I was out there waiting... Nothing...

Check out the video- you can see the Chinese and Russians parts failing about 2 sec into the launch....
http://www.cnn.com/2014/10/28/us/nasa-rocket-explodes/index.html

 

Much like in BelMar when the forecast is bunk?

 

Quite a bit on the TV news tonight.

Here's a photo from another Wallops launch. Saw it in Time mag from last Dec.
Frog was not available for comment. It was said that Kermit probably went to his "final frontier".

 

Who can guess why Suborbital Sciences is still in business? Must be their proximity to D.C. It was a crap company from the get-go. It was a crap company when they were blowing up Tarus rockets. It was a crap company when they were blowing up Pegasus rockets. Guess what? It's still a crap company now that they've built a shiny new Cygnus pipe bomb to blow their launch pad to hell and gone.

Well, what can you expect from the East coast? Tiny waves and rockets that fly into the ground, I guess.

To be fair, it looks like it was the crap Russian engine from that s h i t e company, Aerojet, that doomed the rocket. No big surprise. Aerojet has zero talent and has been kept afloat by corporate lobbiests getting them cost+ military contracts for decades. The last decent rocket company was Rocketdyne, and AJ swallowed them up after Bush cut their legs out from under them by cancelling the shuttle and replacing it with that insane bottle rocket; constellation.

Good thing we've still got innovators like Musk and his colleagues at SpaceX in Los Angeles to pull our bacon out of the fire with all-new American-made innovation.

 

Am I seeing things when I say there's a silhouette of an airborne body with limbs in a starfish pose in the top left quadrant of that image? Either that or an insect on the lens of the camera...

Ok, Dos Ecks, THAT'S what you meant by the frog lol

Maybe another small sailboat snuck out on the water and that's the sailor!

 

totally his fault.
$6K for a toilet seat had nothing to do with it.

 

So we had a no go againe last night?

 

exploded after lift off

 

Oh snap.

 

kah boom

 

i'm not sure why the poster above is talking trash on orbital science. this is actually rocket science, it's incredibly difficult and never perfect. Could you maybe give reasons for your trash talking?

I feel for all the scientists and researches that had their expirements etc in the payload of that rocket. that s blood sweat and tears lost in 6 seconds. research revenue streams are not easy to find.